952-856-0071 info@newbirthmidwifery.com 1580 White Oak Dr, Suite 275, Chaska, MN 55318

About

Our History

New Birth Midwifery was created in 2010 out of a desire to meet women and their families where they were and provide compassionate care in a team based approach.

We have a motto that says, “Birthing Naturally, Birthing Safely.” This to us means that we take a holistic approach to care – looking at the big picture each time, spending an hour for prenatals when we could do them in 15 minutes because we want to know what’s really going on with each of our clients and we want to help educate them on their choices for interventions or options in care so they can make an informed decision and be a part of their own care team. We believe that birth is a normal, natural life event and we help to keep it that way by entering into a woman’s life at a very special time and helping her to build trust with her care providers – the very ones who will attend her birth.

“Birthing Naturally, Birthing Safely” does not mean, however, that we are anti-hospital. We do believe that not all women should deliver outside of the hospital – only healthy, low risk mommas, which is the majority of women. We have developed good relationships with hospital care providers who help our clients when they need additional care beyond what we are able to provide in an out-of-hospital setting. If a client does end up in the hospital, we go with them to make sure they are still well cared for throughout.

Starting in October of 2023 we will have BOTH home birth and birth center options for our clients. New Birth Midwifery will integrate in our new birth center space called New Birth Wellness Center and we are so excited about this! Please stay tuned for more updates as we will be doing a major website overhaul to give you all the information you need to know which option is best for your family.

Home birth has evolved significantly from 2010 when NBM was first started. The kind of family looking for a home birth is no longer just the family who bucks the social norms but is now also many first time parents choosing midwifery care and home birth as a safe alternative to a hospital birth where protocols may interfere with their desires to have the birth they want. We also see many families come to NBM who have had hospital births in the past. Some families don’t want a repeat of their last birth, while some just know they can have their ideal birth experience, this time in the comfort of their own home.

We would love to meet you and your family! To learn more about New Birth Midwifery’s home birth OR birth center practice and to meet the midwives, contact us for a free consultation.

Our Philosophy

We believe that childbirth is a normal and healthy physiological process and that midwifery care is an important part of the process that keeps birth normal. The role of the caregiver is to support and promote this normal process, while recognizing and dealing with any deviations from normal. Confidence in this normal process is promoted in all aspects of care.

We believe  that education is an essential part of quality health care. With knowledge freely exchanged between our staff and clients, women and their families are able to assume shared responsibility for and make informed choices about their health care.

We believe that a midwife has the responsibility to act in a professional manner, to protect client privacy and confidentiality, and to be accountable to the client, the midwifery profession, and the public for safe, competent and ethical care.

We believe in the vital importance to the newborn infant of receiving their full placental blood volume and of immediate and uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby in the first hours postpartum.

We believe in providing safe, sensitive and culturally appropriate care in an environment that promotes the integrity of the family and non-interruption of the normal birth process.